Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1887-06-25
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR
JUNE 20.
Lesson Text: Second Quarterly Re
view-Golden Text: Ps. cv.. 43
Commentary by Pro-
fessor Curtiss.

The Schooling Of the People Of Redemp-
fton.-Nations hike individuals need to go to
school. Israel was to be trained in the
sciences and arts of HE in Egypt, the uni
vel'sity Of the ancient world, and afterward
IN theology or religion in the wilderness.
Sin, misfortune and famine were the instru-
ments in Gods hands in Introducing Israel to
Egypt.
The Beloved on.-Unconseiously Jacob
and JosSph's brethren were co-working with
God in the accomplishments of this plan.
God had great things in store for Joseph, and
he gave him premonitions of them. His
father loved him because heLwas the son of
his beloved wife, Rachel, aud perhaps because
of his goodness. For all these reasons his
brethren hated him, because of hissuperiority,
his goodness and fathers love, and they were
ready to kill him.
Joseph remindsus of that best beloved Son
whom his brethren the Jew Elated bee ause of
his sinlessness, and his just claims to leader
ship, whom they betrayed and crucified, and
who became the Saviour of the world
through the sin of his own people, as Joseph
became the saviour of his brethren.
Joseph Rltter.-As Jesus the sinless one
suffered because of his goodness, SO Joseph
suffered because of his virtue. He went to
prison for years rather than yield to the voice
OF temptation and sin against God.
But as Jesus went through the deepest
hand of the Father, 50 Joseph was given
place next the King of Egypt.
Joseph and His Brethren.- is no
peace to tho wicked. They are like the
troubled sea when it cannot rest, whose
waters cast up mire and dirt. Joseph spent
years in a prison: but we may well believe
that in all those years he took more comfort
than his guilty brothers. Could they ever
forget his pure, pleading face as they thrust
him into the pit or the falsehOod they told
their father:
Before they could have forgiveness and
peace; they must experience deep repentance.
So we before We can have peace with God,
and have the love Of Christ shed abroad in
our hearts, must remember that it was our
sins which nailed our Saviour 30 tlie cross.
Fiii0i LoUe.-Joseph is an example of the
love of children for parents in all times He
did all he could to make che old age of his
father happy. He was thoughtful for his
comfort and was not ashamed to introduce
him to the proud Pharaoh of Egypt He re-
warSied all his fathers love in his early years
by cberishing that father in his old age, and
then by honoring his memory when dead as
though be had been a King
An Ensldted Peopte.-At last Joseph died
and all his brethren. A new king arose who
neither knew nor cared for him. This King
looked with fear on the Isreelites who were
SO rapidly increasing IN Goshen, Ju the high
way of his kingdom to the countries Of his
enemies in Palestine, the land of the Hittites,
and of Assyria. He even commanded that
all the male children should be slain, but
under Gods care the people kept increasing.
The enslavement Of Israel was only the way
to their deliverance
The Wonderful Bdbe-Notding is small in
Gods kingdom. The destinies of this world
hung on the life Of the Babe in Bethlehem.
Herod's decree was therefore powerless
against him. So at an earlier period the
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mitted to little basket, and that little basket
with its precious burden was committed to
the Nile, and its keeping was entrusted to a
Hebrew maiden But that child was IN the
keeping of the infinite God. The same hand
that led the Hebrew mother toput the basket
on the waters, of the Nile was leading
Pharaoh's daughter thither, and was prepar-
ing the way for this beautiful babe to become
the son of princess
The leader of Gods people must go to
school, first among the Princes of the world
in Egypt, and then like his people he was to
be taught of God id the awful solitudes of
the wilderness
The Burning B,lsh.-All human gifts are
in vain for Gods service without the baptism
of fire, and unless God reveals himself to the
soul. The leaders of Gods host must have
a vision of the Almighty before they can
perform any mighty works Moses was versed
in all the learning Of the Egyptians, and had
had the opportunity for meditation in the
wilderness, but he was not prepared for his
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